Sosaku Hanga & Shin Hanga

Bugle - Still Life.

Bugle - Still Life.

Sumio Kawakami 1895-1972
From the art magazine, Hanga, vol.11, no. 2
Signature: "Kawakami Sumio" printed on the accompanying presentation paper.
Date: 1926
Paper: 6-7/8 x 8-1/8 inches
Hanga was published from 1924 to 30, and sold by subscription. Vol.1 - Vol.15 were sold as albums in which the individual prints, ten in each volume, were included separately. Only the last volume, no.16, was bound in magazine format in which each print was pasted on the inside pages.
Literature: Merritt and Yamada, p. 202
$200.

Solitude.  A suite of eleven woodcuts inspired by the essay, Solitude, from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Bugle - Still Life. (At the wharf.) Lake Chuzenji in Autumn. Bicycle Race (Keirin.)
Nakamura Kanzaburo as the Tobaconist Genshichi, from the series Shin han butai no sugata-e (Thirty Contemporary Actor Prints) Mt. Kashimayari. Mother and Child. Tateyama Betsuzan.